Chad Gier
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1568999555
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 207 payments — averaging $189.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$16K
- Boston Scientific$8K
- Abbott$7K
- Medtronic$6K
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$536
- Amgen$399
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,00023%
- Grants$17,54545%
- Travel & lodging$2,5617%
- Food & beverage$9,31624%
- Education$8682%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 15 | $15,882 |
| Boston Scientific | 37 | $7,864 |
| Abbott | 39 | $6,692 |
| Medtronic | 48 | $6,170 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 13 | $536 |
| Amgen | 4 | $399 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $338 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $236 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 5 | $213 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $212 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $190 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $135 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $76 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $55 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $53 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $31 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $27 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$3,000
- TACTICATH$2,727
- ASSURITY$1,818
- S-ICD System Magnet$1,117
- Carto 3$533
- OPTIS$367
- ENSITE$299
- AVEIR$295
- Micra$278
- Repatha$251
- ENSITE PRECISION$228
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$214
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$190
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$188
- NUVISION ICE CATHETER$182
- LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor$172
- Farapulse$170
- KENGREAL$135
- JARDIANCE$121
- MitraClip$114
How this compares
$39,291 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.
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Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Chicago
- Roderick TungChicago$2.3M
- Bradley KnightChicago$1.6M
- Gaurav UpadhyayChicago$785K
- Albert LinChicago$486K
- Hany DemoChicago$297K
- Nishant VermaChicago$281K
- Martin BurkeChicago$268K
- Susan KimChicago$206K
- Rishi AroraChicago$162K
- Alexander MazurChicago$161K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.